Lot 590 :
Sold for £4,900 hammer
Estimate £2,000-£4,000
AIME JULES DALOU (1838-1902) - Maternite, portrait study of Madame Dalou, bronze, signed and dated Dalou 1874, foundry mark A. A. Hebrard and Cire Perdue, dark brown patina, height 45cm. Notes: This work was created only four years after Dalou's success at the Salon in 1970 with a work titled 'Brodeuse', and was inspired by his wife Irma, a former seamstress. Literature: D. Bilbey & M. Trusted, British Sculpture 1470 to 2000, cat. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2002, p. 241; J. Hunisak, The Sculptor Jules Dalou: Studies in His Style and Imagery, London, 1977, pp. 53-8 & 147-8; Le d
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